Like the Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, the Vienna Volkstheater was built by the architects Ferdinand Fellner and Hermann Helmer. Since its foundation, it has been a stage for protagonists, stories and forms of expression of middle-class provenance.

Today, too, the Volkstheater sees itself as a place for the city and the people who live in it: Contemporary and re-read drama, border crossings between performing and visual arts and digitality. Lectures and discussion events, communication and dialogue with the visitors expand the program and make the Volkstheater a space for the debates of the present.

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In addition to the main building in the 7th district, the Volkstheater also has 15 other venues in the districts.

Red Bar and Darkroom

The Volkstheater is also home to the Rote Bar (Red Bar), which has had a firm place in Viennese cultural life for years, and the Dunkelkammer (Darkroom): located directly under the roof, this venue was known for a long time as the Plafond and the Schwarzer Salon (Black Saloon). Now, as the Dunkelkammer, it becomes a space for analog and digital experiments.

The Volkstheater is also enriched with a café called Liebling.

Even more theater ...

Tip for theater fans: The internationally leading Theater Museum near the Hofburg - with over 1,000 stage models, 600 costumes and props from three centuries and hundreds of thousands of photos. The showpiece is a painting: Gustav Klimt's "Nuda Veritas".